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SOBRE NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL Noticias en español es una sección de KFF Health News que contiene traducciones de artículos de gran interés para la comunidad hispanohablante, y contenido original enfocado en la población hispana que vive en los Estados Unidos. Use Nuestro Contenido Este contenido puede usarse de manera gratuita (detalles). Los casos de enfermedad […]

This story is part of a partnership that includes NPR and Kaiser Health News. This story can be republished for free (details). ( function() { var func = function() { var iframe = document.getElementById(‘wpcom-iframe-7bdd373e9e297df24246258d33e8f25d’) if ( iframe ) { iframe.onload = function() { iframe.contentWindow.postMessage( { ‘msg_type’: ‘poll_size’, ‘frame_id’: ‘wpcom-iframe-7bdd373e9e297df24246258d33e8f25d’ }, “https://embeds.kff.org” ); } } // […]

Ed Avol grew up in Los Angeles in the 1960s, but he rarely caught a glimpse of the rolling green contours and snowy peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains just east of the city. More often than not, they were obscured by the low-hanging gauze of smog that cloaked the L.A. basin in a dreary […]

SOBRE NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL Noticias en español es una sección de KFF Health News que contiene traducciones de artículos de gran interés para la comunidad hispanohablante, y contenido original enfocado en la población hispana que vive en los Estados Unidos. Use Nuestro Contenido Este contenido puede usarse de manera gratuita (detalles). Durante una docena de […]

This story also ran on AARP. This story can be republished for free (details). Navigating Aging Navigating Aging focuses on medical issues and advice associated with aging and end-of-life care, helping America’s 60 million seniors and their families navigate the health care system. To contact Judith Graham with a question or comment, click here. Join the […]

KHN’s Shefali Luthra spoke with Jeremy Hobsons, host of WBUR’s Hear & Now, about the Trump administration’s lawsuit over sales of the HIV-prevention drug Truvada. ( function() { var func = function() { var iframe = document.getElementById(‘wpcom-iframe-1a723c1b4839059fefa5f1f776546ec3’) if ( iframe ) { iframe.onload = function() { iframe.contentWindow.postMessage( { ‘msg_type’: ‘poll_size’, ‘frame_id’: ‘wpcom-iframe-1a723c1b4839059fefa5f1f776546ec3’ }, “https://embeds.kff.org” ); […]

This story also ran on HuffPost. This story can be republished for free (details). As states and communities rush to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products linked to vaping, Carol McGruder races from town to town, urging officials to include what she calls “the mother lode of all flavors”: menthol. McGruder, co-chair of the […]

This story also ran on NBC News. This story can be republished for free (details). KHN correspondent Shefali Luthra reported this article from Germany as a 2019 Arthur F. Burns Fellow. HAMBURG, Germany ― In 2016, 10 times as many Americans as Germans died as a result of drug overdoses, mostly opiates. Three times as […]

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). The newest faculty member at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences has a great smile — and a wagging tail. Shetland, not quite 2 years old, is half golden retriever, half Labrador retriever. As of this fall, he is […]